Traditional medical model | Patient-centered medicine |
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Provider-centered model | Patient-centered model |
Founded on the principles of beneficence and authoritarianism | Founded on the principle of autonomy |
Disease-oriented care | Patient-oriented care |
Focuses on outcomes of importance for physicians and regulators | Focuses on outcomes of importance for patients |
The patient’s perspective is usually ignored | The patient’s preferences, objectives and values are taken into account during decision making and delivery of healthcare |
Compliance with the physician’s decisions | The patient and physician share decision making |
Improve outcomes for the average patient | Improve outcomes for the individual patient |
Population-oriented research | Patient-oriented research |